Ayushs’ Photography

These photos are a culmination of a lot of the skills I learned in Photography 11 and 12 being chucked away and refined into the most minimalistic but effective parts. I knew I couldn't push/learn skills further without more time and equipment. So I decided to make my Final naked in terms of technological scale, and minimal in presentation. I feel I aimed for a very subtle conceptual story that at times was hard to cultivate.  After a while of thinking I had settled on what I thought would be a series of photos that illuminated the crisis of imbalanced representation of skin tones with Bandaids. It would have been numerous people from different races, with the exact opposite bandaid colour to their skin tone plastered all over their faces. It felt oppressive and entrapping, and I still admire the idea of that Final, which would have had numerous faces all in different skin tones, being bashed with the opposite shade. It would have been a call for proper representation with skin ton...